On 5 August 2010 00:39, Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> wrote: > On 4 August 2010 12:44, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: >> >> ?Lisandro, >> >> ? ?We would like to help you make it possible for petsc4py to be installed >> by easyinstall and automatically install PETSc with it, thus making it >> trivial for Python users to start using petsc4py. How can we help make this >> happen? >> > > $ export PETSC_DIR=/path/to/petsc > $ export PETSC_ARCH=arch-name > $ easy_install petsc4py > > This should work and be enough (at least on Linux)... >
I confirm this works out of the box (on Linux) for prefix installs and non-prefix builds of petsc-3.1 All this assuming a previous installation/build of PETSc is available. Barry, Do you actually mean that "easy_install petsc4py" should handle the download and build of core PETSc? -- Lisandro Dalcin --------------- CIMEC (INTEC/CONICET-UNL) Predio CONICET-Santa Fe Colectora RN 168 Km 472, Paraje El Pozo Tel: +54-342-4511594 (ext 1011) Tel/Fax: +54-342-4511169